Monthly Archives: August 2020

Overview – Vote for Ted Howard – Kaikoura Electorate

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

If you look hare at the many things I have written, you will find some consistent themes. My prime values have not changed: 1/ Individual life – mine and everyone else’s. 2/ Individual liberty – and that has to come … Continue reading →

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Lifeboat Foundation facebook page – What do you want out of life?

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 31/8/20 On Lifeboat Foundation facebook page – What do you want out of life?] Security (including indefinite life & health extension), liberty (which includes responsibility for the biophysical and social systems that make life and liberty possible), and reasonable … Continue reading →

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Daniel S posted a link on his facebook about freedom of speech

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

Daniel S posted a link on his facebook page to Double down news – the future of journalism [ 31/8/20 ] This is a really important, and an extremely complex issue. If one has as one’s highest values individual life … Continue reading →

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A comment about a Dan Hermansen interview on sovereignty.

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

Ngaio’s facebook link to this audio of Dan Hermansen interview. [ 28/8/20 ] A small opening into the much deeper discussion of the nature of the necessary boundaries and responsibilities between individual freedom and collective survival, with all the layers … Continue reading →

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Quora – It is said that we make 90 percent decisions every day unconsciously, but how can we be conscious when making decisions?

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

Quora – It is said that we make 90 percent decisions every day unconsciously, but how can we be conscious when making decisions? [ 27/8/20 ] It seems very probable that it can only ever be a matter of degree. … Continue reading →

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Quora – The fundamental economic problem is scarcity. Why?

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

The fundamental economic problem is scarcity. Why? [ 24/8/20 ] What definition are you using of economic? Is it one that focuses on the management of the “household” of planet earth, or one that concentrates purely on market values. Scarcity … Continue reading →

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A Facebook post by Ngaio on Marchers protesting lockdown in Auckland

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

[ 24/8/20 Facebook post by Ngaio on Marchers protesting lockdown in Auckland] I have no issue with people holding and expressing alternative views. I do have an issue with people doing things that put other people’s lives at risk. Risk … Continue reading →

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Quora – Is extreme human life extension possible?

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

Is extreme human life extension possible? [ 20/8/20 ] Clearly yes – and it is a very difficult set of problems. Why clearly yes? Because it seems beyond reasonable doubt that all cells alive today came from a single cell … Continue reading →

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Quora – Can everyone agree, it is the super rich versus everyone else?

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

Can everyone agree, it is the super rich versus everyone else? [ 18/8/20 ] No. It is cooperate or perish. We either wake up to the mathematical and logical reality that all new levels of complexity require new levels of … Continue reading →

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Dave Snowden’s Article – It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Ted Howard NZ

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be [ 17/8/20 In response to Dave’s post above] Predator prey relationships are not the only sort of relationship possible. Complexity demands cooperation. A predator that eats all its prey … Continue reading →

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